Looking back on a short northbound train for Toccoa as we blast by sitting engines in Bowersville amidst a cold winter rain. We're on the former St. Lawrence & Atlantic GP40 no. 3000.

A short train for Toccoa rolls alongside highway 17 north of Martin, Georgia behind former CNW 4556 and St. Lawrence & Atlantic 3000

A northbound on the Hartwell Railroad scoots along through the countryside on a dark summer day.

Former CNW GP9 4556 takes charge of a short train of loaded grain hoppers passing by the chip mill at Dewy Rose headed north to the feed mill in Bowersville.

The McClure Mine run scoots down the Clinchfield in the middle of the night, exiting the mountain and passing the classic Clinchfield signal at Haysi

The sun hides behind clouds on a quiet day along the NKCR

An empty coal train arrives at the West Elk loadout on the North Fork Branch on a gorgeous morning in the Colorado Rockies.

The final cars are being loaded with coal at the West Elk loadout at the end of the former DRGW North Fork branch in Somorset, Colorado

A loaded coal train works its way through the massive Escalante Canyon between Delta and Grand Junction, Colorado as the last light of day dwindles down to darkness.

A pair of AC00CWs run around their train of empty hoppers at Sharples, West Virginia before shoving to the Mountain Laurel loadout.

A unit train slowly loads coal at the Mountain Laurel loadout on the desolate Coal River Subdivision in Southern West Virginia.

A pair of YN2 AC4400s load coal at the massive Mountain Laurel complex near Sharples, West Virginia.

An up close and personal view shows the loading process as mine run C612 inches along at less than a mile per hour loading its train with Kentucky black diamonds.

Balkan mine run C612 has just scanned its cars through the Balkan loadout and is ready to load the first cut with a nice YN2 leader and fresh snow on the ground.

Tucked back in a mountain crevice deep in the Eastern Kentucky coalfields, a creech mine run loads coal at the infamous Creech loadout in Harlan county. The old Mary Helen Coal Corp company store ... (more)